You cannot install using software speech for the installation. If you want speech during the install, you'll need to use a hardware speech synthesizer which is supported. Once your system is installed, you can certainly configure software speech. You can even switch back and forth between software and hardware speech. You just can't install with software speech. Your other question ... Yes, 3 Gb is a lot of data. There are two philosophies that you can choose between: 1.) Install the bare minimum to get a system working. Anything else that you may want would have to be dealt with later. Distributions of this persuasion include Debian and Slackware. 2.) Install everything (or at least everything for a particular kind of system, e.g. server, graphical workstation, etc.) up front. This is the Fedora approach. Jason Custer writes: > Hello, > I would like to install linux on my laptop. I would like to use speakup and > gnopernicus. > I must use software speech because I don't want to drag a hardware synth > around everywhere. > How can this be accomplished? Do I install via telnet? > is there a boot cdrom with software speech that can get me started? > I was thinking about installing fidora, but it seems extreamly large (2 to 5 > gb). Is that the case or is it just me? > I know this is a lot to answer over email, so links to tutorials or > documentation would be just as useful. > This seems like a common problem, and if one doesn't already exist, I will > write a howto when I figure out what I am doing. > Thanks in advance. > Jason > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
